This is so disgusting: Users of Christopher Poole’s site 4chan are willfully tormenting the family of a dead teenager. Poole, aka ‘moot’, needs to do something about the sick community on his site. I hold him responsible for his continued failure to act. His site is a hub for criminal and anti-social activity. He does nothing to stop it, instead choosing to profit from it.

The President’s continued modesty on cybersecurity continues. It seems to me that in this climate he thinks he has no chance of a power grab, so more voluntary, incentive-based cybersecurity measures are being pushed from the Barack Obama White House. I have no problem with this.

I disagree that a breakdown of negotiations between CBS and Time Warner should lead to new regulations. If people are “losing access” to programming, it’s because CBS is choosing it to be so. Note that CBS’s Internet actions against Time Warner violate Net Neutrality, but since those regulations don’t apply to edge service providers, it’s not illegal if they do it. Remember when I said Net Neutrality was about picking sides? Yeah. Time to deregulate and let the people decide in the marketplace.

I’ve complained for a long while in this space about the criminalization of copyright. Barack Obama wants to enhance that, by making illegal streaming a felony. Remember all those digital libertarians who voted for Obama? Let’s point and laugh at their stupidity.

When it comes to internet access, we constantly need reminded that Americans have choice. There’s no monopoly. There’s no duopoly. Both despite, not because of, government regulatory efforts.